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...experimental treatment includes steps that sound a lot like science fiction: Harvesting the patient's own skin cells, growing them in a petri dish, and transecting those cells with the gene that creates nerve growth factor - a substance required to maintain normal brain function. The final step is the most dramatic: During an 11-hour procedure, doctors drilled a hole in the right side of the patient's brain and implanted the cells...
...Holtzman: Yes. The site in question, called the nucleus basalis, which needs the nerve growth factor for normal brain function, is in the middle of the brain - so potentially, if the treatment worked, one could perform gene therapy on both sides of a patient's brain...
These wires conduct electricity like normal wires but they can also be arranged so they act like mini-transistors, which are the smallest working unit of a computer...
...some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-president behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle and as far as Bosnia and Croatia...
...those normal, well-adjusted students of Santee, Calif.: Where the hell are you when you see a classmate being beaten up physically or emotionally because he's fat or wears thick glasses? Why aren't you rising up in wrath and getting in the face of the bullies and demanding that they stop it? Unless you show the misfits and outcasts that you care enough to protect them, you are as guilty as those doing the bullying. EDWARD HUBER Philadelphia...